Jayanti-a new species of cricket, was found in the Kurra caves of Chhattisgarh in April 2021 by a team of zoologists headed by Dr Ranjana Jaiswara of the Zoology Department of Panjab University.
About Jayanti
- It has become the twelfth subgenus, or species, of cricket identified under the genus Arachnomimus Saussure, 1897.
- The new subgenus was named Jayanti after Professor Jayant Biswas, one of the leading cave explorers in the country.
- Arachnomimus is the genus name given by Swiss Entomologist Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1878 to crickets that resembled spiders.
- The newly discovered subgenus, Indimimus, is different from the two subgenera, Arachnomimus and Euarachnomimus, because of the male genitalia structure.
(Source: Indian Express)
